PAST GRANT AWARDS
Fall 2025 Grant Summaries
21 grants totaling $33,218.00
CLASSROOM GRANTS
CHS - Michael Knabe - Get to Know your Neighbors: Micro-invertebrate Community Survey of Local Water: $6329
This grant will be used to purchase microscopes to conduct a class project where students will collect water samples from natural and artificial sources including local streams, ponds, and tap water. Students will then conduct a survey to find and identify different micro-invertebrates in each sample location.
CHS - Michael Deatherage - Culinary Life Skills for Special Education Students: $750
This grant will provide funding for essential culinary supplies, including cookware, bakeware, utensils, appliances, and cleaning equipment, to support the Special Education Life Skills classroom at Clinton High School. These resources will allow students to meet state-mandated life skills standards while gaining experience in meal prep, nutrition, safety, and teamwork, while building confidence that extends beyond the classroom.
CHS - Kimberly Duerksen - High School Choir Clinic - $1000
The choir was chosen to sing at the Oklahoma Music Educators Conference in January 2026 in front of the choral educators of Oklahoma. To prepare, this grant will provide two clinicians to conduct clinics for vocal music students.
CHS - Lori Gwyn - Red Tornadoes Science Olympiad: $2015
This grant will allow Clinton High School and Middle School science students to participate in the 2025-2026 Oklahoma Science Olympiad, a nationally recognized STEM competition that engages students in hands-on scientific inquiry, critical thinking, and engineering design. Team-based events allow students to gain valuable experience in problem-solving, collaboration, and innovation while representing their school at regional, state, and national levels.
CHS - Sherrie Johnson - National Restaurant Association Curriculum and Testing Materials: $525
This grant will provide curriculum and testing materials for 50 Clinton High School students to earn the National Restaurant Association (NRA) ServSafe Food Handlers three-year certification.
CHS - Whitney Misak - Make DNA Visible: $7240
Students in grades 9-12 will bring science to life with PCR and gel electrophoresis machines that make DNA visible. This hands-on project helps students visualize and understand complex genetic concepts, enhancing learning in biology, forensics, chemistry, and anatomy while encouraging future STEM exploration through real-world, interactive lab experiences.
CHS - Joy Walker-Badillo - Community Connection Murals: HOST Ministries Thrift Store: $691
Clinton High School art students will design and paint four large murals for the HOST Ministries Thrift Store. The murals will beautify the building, increase community awareness, and highlight the food bank, the thrift store, and support giving students the chance to use art as a tool for service and impact.
CMS/WES - Lana NIx - Character Champions: $266
This grant will support a program that recognizes staff-nominated students who show a specific monthly character trait throughout the school. These students will be recognized at an assembly, a special lunch, and will receive a certificate of achievement.
CMS/WESHaylee StanleyBuilding Safe Spaces: A Sensory Approach to Student Growth1611This grant will support a calm-down corner which will provide students with a safe, supportive space to regulate emotions. Featuring flexible seating, sensory tools, and calming activities, this space fosters focus and self-regulation. By encouraging healthy coping skills, the calm-down corner helps students return to learning ready and able to succeed.
SES - Leksi Richert - Scholastic News!: $1032
This grant will fund a Scholastic News subscription for third graders, providing engaging, age-appropriate nonfiction texts on current events, science, social studies, and geography. The monthly magazine subscription supports literacy, critical thinking, and awareness of topics like climate change and America's 250th birthday.
SES - Krisha Ticer - Glockenspiel and xylophone repairs: $1500
This grant will help put an Orff instrument, glockenspiel or xylophone, in every student's hands. No more waiting for a turn.
SES - Jodi Crowdis - GaGa2Go-GaGa Ball Pit With Cart: $1823
This grant is supplying funds to acquire a Gaga Ball Pit, which will be a unique addition to the PE program at Southwest Elementary. Gaga Ball is a fast-paced game that promotes developing agility, dodging skills, and reflexes.
SES - Ashleigh Gordon - Recess Reset: $481
The "Recess Reset" grant provides the fourth-grade team with technology-free supplies for indoor recess. The materials will help students de-stress, build social skills, and engage their minds, ensuring their break time is productive, interactive, and relationship-focused.
SES - Ashlyn Whitten - Science in Action: Hands-On Labs for Fifth Grade: $970
Fifth graders will dive into science with hands-on experiments exploring matter, ecosystems, Earth's systems, and space with the funds from this grant. From mixing goop to building greenhouses, students will connect classroom learning to real-world science. This project sparks curiosity, strengthens understanding, and builds future-ready problem-solvers.
SES - Jessica Palmer - Engaged Minds, Active Learning: $716
This project provides students with flexible tools and quiet movement opportunities that channel excess energy into focus. Using tactile items, flexible seating, and interactive response systems, lessons become more engaging, equitable, and student-centered, promoting self-regulation, participation, and long-term success in ELA and Social Studies classrooms.
SES - Randi Wallace - Racing the SunSolar-Powered Vehicles for Young Engineers: $1155
Through this grant, students will build and race their own solar-powered cars to explore how sunlight can be transformed into usable energy. Through hands-on experimentation, they will learn how light energy converts into electrical energy. The project will culminate in a Solar Grand Prix where students test and race their vehicles.
SES - Kenzie Medina - Imagine Build Learn, The Power of Playful Learning: $644
This grant seeks funding to enhance and refresh the Makerspace at Southwest Elementary with supplies to emphasize hands-on learning and open-ended creative expression through art. Funds will support a variety of materials, including art supplies, building resources, race tracks, and other tools that inspire exploration and creativity.
SES- Hope Miller - Orff to a Great Start: $2475
This grant will provide Orff instruments (xylophones) for our elementary music classroom, giving students hands-on opportunities to explore rhythm, melody, and creativity. These instruments will enhance music education through active participation, teamwork, and joyful learning, helping students build a lifelong appreciation for music.
NES - Julie Adkinson - Sensory Room Success: $617
Supplies through this grant will build a sensory room, a calming, interactive space designed to support regulation and focus through lights, textures, sounds, and movement, helping individuals relax, explore, or re-energize in a safe and controlled environment.
NES - Hillary Barnes - Little Builders, Big Thinkers: LEGO STEM in First Grade: $483
This grant provides a LEGO Education Kit, LEGO table, and LEGO bricks for first graders to explore STEM through hands-on building challenges. Students will develop problem-solving, teamwork, math, and science skills while engaging in guided and creative projects that make learning fun, interactive, and meaningful.
NES - Beth Miller - Tonies in the Classroom: $895
The Tonies in the Classroom grant will provide a hands-on audio experience where Pre-Kindergarten children will independently select and listen to stories on the Tonies device. Teachers can record the books for each theme in the classroom. The device will enhance listening skills, vocabulary, and early literacy through audio experiences.
CHS - Michael Knabe - Get to Know your Neighbors: Micro-invertebrate Community Survey of Local Water: $6329
This grant will be used to purchase microscopes to conduct a class project where students will collect water samples from natural and artificial sources including local streams, ponds, and tap water. Students will then conduct a survey to find and identify different micro-invertebrates in each sample location.
CHS - Michael Deatherage - Culinary Life Skills for Special Education Students: $750
This grant will provide funding for essential culinary supplies, including cookware, bakeware, utensils, appliances, and cleaning equipment, to support the Special Education Life Skills classroom at Clinton High School. These resources will allow students to meet state-mandated life skills standards while gaining experience in meal prep, nutrition, safety, and teamwork, while building confidence that extends beyond the classroom.
CHS - Kimberly Duerksen - High School Choir Clinic - $1000
The choir was chosen to sing at the Oklahoma Music Educators Conference in January 2026 in front of the choral educators of Oklahoma. To prepare, this grant will provide two clinicians to conduct clinics for vocal music students.
CHS - Lori Gwyn - Red Tornadoes Science Olympiad: $2015
This grant will allow Clinton High School and Middle School science students to participate in the 2025-2026 Oklahoma Science Olympiad, a nationally recognized STEM competition that engages students in hands-on scientific inquiry, critical thinking, and engineering design. Team-based events allow students to gain valuable experience in problem-solving, collaboration, and innovation while representing their school at regional, state, and national levels.
CHS - Sherrie Johnson - National Restaurant Association Curriculum and Testing Materials: $525
This grant will provide curriculum and testing materials for 50 Clinton High School students to earn the National Restaurant Association (NRA) ServSafe Food Handlers three-year certification.
CHS - Whitney Misak - Make DNA Visible: $7240
Students in grades 9-12 will bring science to life with PCR and gel electrophoresis machines that make DNA visible. This hands-on project helps students visualize and understand complex genetic concepts, enhancing learning in biology, forensics, chemistry, and anatomy while encouraging future STEM exploration through real-world, interactive lab experiences.
CHS - Joy Walker-Badillo - Community Connection Murals: HOST Ministries Thrift Store: $691
Clinton High School art students will design and paint four large murals for the HOST Ministries Thrift Store. The murals will beautify the building, increase community awareness, and highlight the food bank, the thrift store, and support giving students the chance to use art as a tool for service and impact.
CMS/WES - Lana NIx - Character Champions: $266
This grant will support a program that recognizes staff-nominated students who show a specific monthly character trait throughout the school. These students will be recognized at an assembly, a special lunch, and will receive a certificate of achievement.
CMS/WESHaylee StanleyBuilding Safe Spaces: A Sensory Approach to Student Growth1611This grant will support a calm-down corner which will provide students with a safe, supportive space to regulate emotions. Featuring flexible seating, sensory tools, and calming activities, this space fosters focus and self-regulation. By encouraging healthy coping skills, the calm-down corner helps students return to learning ready and able to succeed.
SES - Leksi Richert - Scholastic News!: $1032
This grant will fund a Scholastic News subscription for third graders, providing engaging, age-appropriate nonfiction texts on current events, science, social studies, and geography. The monthly magazine subscription supports literacy, critical thinking, and awareness of topics like climate change and America's 250th birthday.
SES - Krisha Ticer - Glockenspiel and xylophone repairs: $1500
This grant will help put an Orff instrument, glockenspiel or xylophone, in every student's hands. No more waiting for a turn.
SES - Jodi Crowdis - GaGa2Go-GaGa Ball Pit With Cart: $1823
This grant is supplying funds to acquire a Gaga Ball Pit, which will be a unique addition to the PE program at Southwest Elementary. Gaga Ball is a fast-paced game that promotes developing agility, dodging skills, and reflexes.
SES - Ashleigh Gordon - Recess Reset: $481
The "Recess Reset" grant provides the fourth-grade team with technology-free supplies for indoor recess. The materials will help students de-stress, build social skills, and engage their minds, ensuring their break time is productive, interactive, and relationship-focused.
SES - Ashlyn Whitten - Science in Action: Hands-On Labs for Fifth Grade: $970
Fifth graders will dive into science with hands-on experiments exploring matter, ecosystems, Earth's systems, and space with the funds from this grant. From mixing goop to building greenhouses, students will connect classroom learning to real-world science. This project sparks curiosity, strengthens understanding, and builds future-ready problem-solvers.
SES - Jessica Palmer - Engaged Minds, Active Learning: $716
This project provides students with flexible tools and quiet movement opportunities that channel excess energy into focus. Using tactile items, flexible seating, and interactive response systems, lessons become more engaging, equitable, and student-centered, promoting self-regulation, participation, and long-term success in ELA and Social Studies classrooms.
SES - Randi Wallace - Racing the SunSolar-Powered Vehicles for Young Engineers: $1155
Through this grant, students will build and race their own solar-powered cars to explore how sunlight can be transformed into usable energy. Through hands-on experimentation, they will learn how light energy converts into electrical energy. The project will culminate in a Solar Grand Prix where students test and race their vehicles.
SES - Kenzie Medina - Imagine Build Learn, The Power of Playful Learning: $644
This grant seeks funding to enhance and refresh the Makerspace at Southwest Elementary with supplies to emphasize hands-on learning and open-ended creative expression through art. Funds will support a variety of materials, including art supplies, building resources, race tracks, and other tools that inspire exploration and creativity.
SES- Hope Miller - Orff to a Great Start: $2475
This grant will provide Orff instruments (xylophones) for our elementary music classroom, giving students hands-on opportunities to explore rhythm, melody, and creativity. These instruments will enhance music education through active participation, teamwork, and joyful learning, helping students build a lifelong appreciation for music.
NES - Julie Adkinson - Sensory Room Success: $617
Supplies through this grant will build a sensory room, a calming, interactive space designed to support regulation and focus through lights, textures, sounds, and movement, helping individuals relax, explore, or re-energize in a safe and controlled environment.
NES - Hillary Barnes - Little Builders, Big Thinkers: LEGO STEM in First Grade: $483
This grant provides a LEGO Education Kit, LEGO table, and LEGO bricks for first graders to explore STEM through hands-on building challenges. Students will develop problem-solving, teamwork, math, and science skills while engaging in guided and creative projects that make learning fun, interactive, and meaningful.
NES - Beth Miller - Tonies in the Classroom: $895
The Tonies in the Classroom grant will provide a hands-on audio experience where Pre-Kindergarten children will independently select and listen to stories on the Tonies device. Teachers can record the books for each theme in the classroom. The device will enhance listening skills, vocabulary, and early literacy through audio experiences.
Spring 2025 Grant Summaries
17 grants totaling $23,174.00
CHS - Emma Seiter - Street Law/Current Events Oklahoma City Bombing Field Trip
This grant will be used for Street Law and Current Events students at Clinton High School to tour the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum.
CHS - Moises Villanueva - Let's Go Paint!
As a unit of the ART II class, we will be studying the Post-Impressionist movement and creating a painting like those made by the famous Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh! For this project, we will need a great deal of painting supplies in order to get the best possible pieces!
CHS - Jacklyn Olney - Exploring Current Events: Connecting Students to the World
This grant funds resources for students to explore current events through creative projects, a trip to the Route 66 Museum, and an Upfront Student Magazine subscription. By connecting past and present, students will develop critical thinking, research, and communication skills to better understand the world around them.
CHS - Billie Rodriguez - Ignighting Young Minds
This project introduces 9th-12th grade Special Education students to the exciting world of robotics and electronics. Utilizing a specially designed Robotics and Electronics Fundamentals Stem Kit.
CHS - Ashley Kelley - Broadcasting Journalism Rt.66 Films
Students will collaborate with each other and the Rt. 66 Museums Director, Patricia Smith, to research ideas, and travel to create short films that showcase the Museum and how Rt. 66 has impacted Clinton. They will create a historical film showing how landmarks have changed on Rt. 66 in Clinton.
CHS - Michele Granger - Sublimation Sticker Project
Yearbook students will use sublimation and die cutting equipment to create vinyl, waterproof stickers which match this years theme "Make Your Mark" and will be given with each yearbook sold. They've also planned next year's theme, "Drink It All In" and will include a printed tumbler with each yearbook.
CHS & CMS - Kim Duerksen - Independent Practicing
Sectional rehearsals are part of our everyday class. Speakers for each voice part allow other groups to practice independently. The parts are recorded, and each group can practice their parts and then come together to sing. Students work together, allowing the music to be taught more efficiently.
Washington - Lindsey Baker - Surf Into Summer With a Literature Luau
This grant will fund an event to spark students interest in reading independently during the non-school months. We will bring community members including the Western Plains Library together to help with various stations to engage and expose students to different genres and ways of enjoying literature, culminating in introducing our summer reading challenge that they can complete for a chance to win prizes.
Washington - Heaven King - Scientific Adventures: 6th grade science stars
A hands-on, engaging STEM curriculum for 6th-grade students, fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and a a love for science through cr
Southwest - Shawna Rivas - Sensory Room
The primary goal of the grant is to provide the resources for teachers and students to enhance the sensory components of the educational environment. The sensory stations will create a more engaging and interactive learning experience, particularly for students with diverse sensory needs.
Southwest - Macy Crispin - Southwest Print Makers
SES students will have the opportunity to learn about all things printmaking then become actual printmakers! Gifted and talented students will make WoodCut and Printmaking items to display and possibly sell.
Southwest - Christy Stephens - Meet Alastair Heim - Dr. Seuss 2.0
Students will experience an interactive, in-person presentation by author Alastair Heim, the author dubbed Dr. Seuss 2.0. He will share ideas about writing and storytelling. He will also encourage kids to be creative as they grow. He will give presentations geared to each grade, including second through fifth.
Southwest - Morgan Behrens - The Night Zookeeper Project: Fostering Literacy and Imagination
This grant will fund the purchase of Night Zookeeper subscriptions for 63 students. The project aims to increase access to this engaging online platform, fostering creativity. Students will engage in activities that will reinforce literacy skills, help them connect with other young writers, and particiapte in personalized challenges and activities.
Southwest - Dixie Williams - Regulation Stations
Regulation Stations added to the classrooms at Southwest Elementary will allow classroom teachers to have calming tools to implement with dysregulated students.
Southwest - Allison Watson - Books, Bikes, and Bright Minds: Fueling Creativity and Focus in the Classroom
The "Books, Bikes, and Bright Minds" project is a multifaceted initiative that combines creativity, technology, and physical movement to enhance student learning and engagement. The goal of this project is to empower students to become authors of their own stories,
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANTS
Washington and CMS - Gene Ray - Let's Get Motivated!!!!!
We would like to bring in motivational speaker Mike Conn to talk to our students before state testing. Mike has been coming to our middle school for the past few years and does a great job of connecting with our students. He knows our students and staff and fits in well with our culture.
CHS - Michelle Sorter - Reality Check
This grant will enable seniors to participate in a Reality Check. In this activity, students will receive a check register with a monthly salary listed. They will then have to visit several differnent booths to investigate different housing options, transportation, health care, child care, groceries, clothing, etc. Students will juggle their wants and needs to ensure they do not exceed their monthly budget.
This grant will be used for Street Law and Current Events students at Clinton High School to tour the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum.
CHS - Moises Villanueva - Let's Go Paint!
As a unit of the ART II class, we will be studying the Post-Impressionist movement and creating a painting like those made by the famous Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh! For this project, we will need a great deal of painting supplies in order to get the best possible pieces!
CHS - Jacklyn Olney - Exploring Current Events: Connecting Students to the World
This grant funds resources for students to explore current events through creative projects, a trip to the Route 66 Museum, and an Upfront Student Magazine subscription. By connecting past and present, students will develop critical thinking, research, and communication skills to better understand the world around them.
CHS - Billie Rodriguez - Ignighting Young Minds
This project introduces 9th-12th grade Special Education students to the exciting world of robotics and electronics. Utilizing a specially designed Robotics and Electronics Fundamentals Stem Kit.
CHS - Ashley Kelley - Broadcasting Journalism Rt.66 Films
Students will collaborate with each other and the Rt. 66 Museums Director, Patricia Smith, to research ideas, and travel to create short films that showcase the Museum and how Rt. 66 has impacted Clinton. They will create a historical film showing how landmarks have changed on Rt. 66 in Clinton.
CHS - Michele Granger - Sublimation Sticker Project
Yearbook students will use sublimation and die cutting equipment to create vinyl, waterproof stickers which match this years theme "Make Your Mark" and will be given with each yearbook sold. They've also planned next year's theme, "Drink It All In" and will include a printed tumbler with each yearbook.
CHS & CMS - Kim Duerksen - Independent Practicing
Sectional rehearsals are part of our everyday class. Speakers for each voice part allow other groups to practice independently. The parts are recorded, and each group can practice their parts and then come together to sing. Students work together, allowing the music to be taught more efficiently.
Washington - Lindsey Baker - Surf Into Summer With a Literature Luau
This grant will fund an event to spark students interest in reading independently during the non-school months. We will bring community members including the Western Plains Library together to help with various stations to engage and expose students to different genres and ways of enjoying literature, culminating in introducing our summer reading challenge that they can complete for a chance to win prizes.
Washington - Heaven King - Scientific Adventures: 6th grade science stars
A hands-on, engaging STEM curriculum for 6th-grade students, fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and a a love for science through cr
Southwest - Shawna Rivas - Sensory Room
The primary goal of the grant is to provide the resources for teachers and students to enhance the sensory components of the educational environment. The sensory stations will create a more engaging and interactive learning experience, particularly for students with diverse sensory needs.
Southwest - Macy Crispin - Southwest Print Makers
SES students will have the opportunity to learn about all things printmaking then become actual printmakers! Gifted and talented students will make WoodCut and Printmaking items to display and possibly sell.
Southwest - Christy Stephens - Meet Alastair Heim - Dr. Seuss 2.0
Students will experience an interactive, in-person presentation by author Alastair Heim, the author dubbed Dr. Seuss 2.0. He will share ideas about writing and storytelling. He will also encourage kids to be creative as they grow. He will give presentations geared to each grade, including second through fifth.
Southwest - Morgan Behrens - The Night Zookeeper Project: Fostering Literacy and Imagination
This grant will fund the purchase of Night Zookeeper subscriptions for 63 students. The project aims to increase access to this engaging online platform, fostering creativity. Students will engage in activities that will reinforce literacy skills, help them connect with other young writers, and particiapte in personalized challenges and activities.
Southwest - Dixie Williams - Regulation Stations
Regulation Stations added to the classrooms at Southwest Elementary will allow classroom teachers to have calming tools to implement with dysregulated students.
Southwest - Allison Watson - Books, Bikes, and Bright Minds: Fueling Creativity and Focus in the Classroom
The "Books, Bikes, and Bright Minds" project is a multifaceted initiative that combines creativity, technology, and physical movement to enhance student learning and engagement. The goal of this project is to empower students to become authors of their own stories,
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANTS
Washington and CMS - Gene Ray - Let's Get Motivated!!!!!
We would like to bring in motivational speaker Mike Conn to talk to our students before state testing. Mike has been coming to our middle school for the past few years and does a great job of connecting with our students. He knows our students and staff and fits in well with our culture.
CHS - Michelle Sorter - Reality Check
This grant will enable seniors to participate in a Reality Check. In this activity, students will receive a check register with a monthly salary listed. They will then have to visit several differnent booths to investigate different housing options, transportation, health care, child care, groceries, clothing, etc. Students will juggle their wants and needs to ensure they do not exceed their monthly budget.
Fall 2024 Grant Summaries
21 grants totaling $21,723.00
CHS - Whitney Misak - Under Pressure - $649
This grant would purchase a blood pressure simulator that would be used in the Anatomy and Physiology classes at CHS. It would enable the students to see how the blood flows through the body and aid in learning how to correctly take blood pressure.
CHS - Rick Dillinger - Storm Warning: Workforce Tornado is coming - $1925
The agriculture department has the opportunity to train students for welder certification through the Oklahoma Department of Labor for pressure pipe certification. The personal protective equipment will protect the students from facial burns, eye flash burns, and upper torso injuries while welding overhead during he test. This equipment is specifically designed for the pipe welding industry safety standards and would pass the safety inspection for the test administrators. The equipment would be used for several years.
CHS - Sam Frans - Frankenstein: Bones of Knowledge - $1120
While studying Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, seniors would travel to OKC to Skeletons: Museum of Osteology and participate in one of the museum's educational programs. As a cross-curricular field trip to science, this field trip will allow students to see a real-life connection of the novel's theme to modern-day forensics.
Gold Academy - JoDee Adney - Do People Make History or Does History Make People? - $811
Each history student will be required to complete a history project. The project will be a board that details how this figure impacted his or her time period, relationships to other figures of their time, notable accomplishments, education, interests or hobbies, contributions and any interesting facts. This grant will purchase supplies to complete this project as the students in Gold Academy often do not have the ability to purchase their own supplies.
CHS and CMS - Greg Granger - Archery in the Schools - $250
Since the archery program is growing because of its state and national success, more bows, bow cases and other equipment is needed. This grant would provide 1 new bow and bow case.
CMS - Zac Hayes - Drones - $2605
This grant would purchase 10 drones and accessories for the 7th and 8th grade tech ed, coding and robotics. Students will engage in hands-on projects where they will learn about aerodynamics, physics of flight, geometry, and programming languages used in drone operation while programming and flying a drone.
CMS - Megan Malloy - Themed Clay Boxes - $610
111 art students will create personalized clay boxes with the supplies from this grant,
CMS - Ashley Griffith - Graphing with Technology - $1715
Approximately 50 Algebra 1 students would benefit from this grant that provides 10 TI-84 Plus CE Python EZ Spot Graphing Calculators. It would allow students to use these caculators when solving systems of equations as well as graphing inequalities. They would be used for several years.
WES - Allison Resendiz - Movers Are Thinkers and Doers - $650
This grant would benefit 60 students who would use these classroom tools to help strengthen their muscles and improve focus, ultimately leading to better engagement in their lessons. The grant would purchase hand muscle tools, adjustable desks, and other classroom tools.
WES - Ashley Miller - Resource Roundup - $700
Resource Roundup is a bi-monthly event that reaches out to families in our community to provide them with information to make their student(s) successful inside and outside of school. This grant would purchase $50 gift cards as an incentive and refreshments for the 5 events.
SES - Stormy Fuller - Presidential Portraits: A Third-Grade Exploration - $480
This project would impact 18 third-grade students by publishing a book based on the class's research reports. Each student would receive a book.
SES - Macy Crispin - Annual Family Art Night - $1130
This grant would provide supplies for families to create art projects (decorative towels) at the 3rd Annual Family Art Night at Southwest Elementary. It would also provide hot chocolate for the event,
SES - Hope Miller - Recorders in the Elementary Music Class - $149
300 music students at Southwest would benefit from this grant, which would purchase 40 recorders for the music classroom. The students would learn how to read music notes, rhythms, dynamics, etc. The recorders would be used for several years
SES - Shakira Thigpen - Transforming Learning for our Students - $1500
The third-grade teachers are seeking funding to transform third-grade classroom environments at Southwest to create a fun, engaging and stimulating learning space. This grant would purchase several themed supplies for the classrooms.
SES - Ginger England - Let's Glow and Show What You Know - $805
The purpose of this grant proposal is to secure funding for a 7-session boot camp aimed at enhancing ELA and Math Skills of 150 4th grade students. The grant includes teacher tshirts for boot camp days, incentive prizes and classroom decorations,
SES - Christy Stephens - Stories, STEM, & Strategies - Oh, My! - $322
This grant will impact all students at Southwest (620). The students have Storybook STEM time where they will listen to a story, and then have opportunities to work together to create and engage in challenging activities. This grant will purchase supplies for the STEM projects.
NES - Grace Guadarrama - Regulating is Rad - $436
The aim of this grant is to help 19 first grade students understand the emotions that they are feeling and how to properly navigate those feelings and emotions. The grant would purchase books concerning emotions.
NES - Shelby Ray - "Let's give them something to talk about" - $303
This grant would purchase supplies to impact English Language Learners at Nance. These supplies would be used to engage the multilingual students in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
NES - Mandi Bridges - Calm Down Boxes for Every Classroom - $490
This grant would help begin an initiative that seeks to improve classroom management and student well-being by introducing "Calm Down Boxes" in every classroom (360 students). Each box will be equipped with sensory items and charts outlining emotional regulation strategies.
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANT APPLICATIONS
GOLD Academy - Casey Perez, counselor - Achieving Gold - $903
At Gold Academy, students are required to set personal goals for attendance, academic,s and behavior. With this grant, they set up visual minders and motivators to help them stay focused on the goals they have set for themselves. The grant would purchase supplies to create binders for each student.
NES - Tasha Jefferson, Principal - A Vending Adventure in Reading - $3000
This grant will impact 592 students at Southwest by empowering an initiative to improve teacher and student attendance. The grant will purchase books and incentives for students.
SES - Amber Sawatzky, Assistant Principal - Attendance Matters Initiative - $1170
This grant will impact all students at Nance to improve attendance and literacy. This grant is seeking funding to purchase an Inchy Book Vending Machine, a creative and impactful tool designed to motivate students in both areas.
This grant would purchase a blood pressure simulator that would be used in the Anatomy and Physiology classes at CHS. It would enable the students to see how the blood flows through the body and aid in learning how to correctly take blood pressure.
CHS - Rick Dillinger - Storm Warning: Workforce Tornado is coming - $1925
The agriculture department has the opportunity to train students for welder certification through the Oklahoma Department of Labor for pressure pipe certification. The personal protective equipment will protect the students from facial burns, eye flash burns, and upper torso injuries while welding overhead during he test. This equipment is specifically designed for the pipe welding industry safety standards and would pass the safety inspection for the test administrators. The equipment would be used for several years.
CHS - Sam Frans - Frankenstein: Bones of Knowledge - $1120
While studying Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, seniors would travel to OKC to Skeletons: Museum of Osteology and participate in one of the museum's educational programs. As a cross-curricular field trip to science, this field trip will allow students to see a real-life connection of the novel's theme to modern-day forensics.
Gold Academy - JoDee Adney - Do People Make History or Does History Make People? - $811
Each history student will be required to complete a history project. The project will be a board that details how this figure impacted his or her time period, relationships to other figures of their time, notable accomplishments, education, interests or hobbies, contributions and any interesting facts. This grant will purchase supplies to complete this project as the students in Gold Academy often do not have the ability to purchase their own supplies.
CHS and CMS - Greg Granger - Archery in the Schools - $250
Since the archery program is growing because of its state and national success, more bows, bow cases and other equipment is needed. This grant would provide 1 new bow and bow case.
CMS - Zac Hayes - Drones - $2605
This grant would purchase 10 drones and accessories for the 7th and 8th grade tech ed, coding and robotics. Students will engage in hands-on projects where they will learn about aerodynamics, physics of flight, geometry, and programming languages used in drone operation while programming and flying a drone.
CMS - Megan Malloy - Themed Clay Boxes - $610
111 art students will create personalized clay boxes with the supplies from this grant,
CMS - Ashley Griffith - Graphing with Technology - $1715
Approximately 50 Algebra 1 students would benefit from this grant that provides 10 TI-84 Plus CE Python EZ Spot Graphing Calculators. It would allow students to use these caculators when solving systems of equations as well as graphing inequalities. They would be used for several years.
WES - Allison Resendiz - Movers Are Thinkers and Doers - $650
This grant would benefit 60 students who would use these classroom tools to help strengthen their muscles and improve focus, ultimately leading to better engagement in their lessons. The grant would purchase hand muscle tools, adjustable desks, and other classroom tools.
WES - Ashley Miller - Resource Roundup - $700
Resource Roundup is a bi-monthly event that reaches out to families in our community to provide them with information to make their student(s) successful inside and outside of school. This grant would purchase $50 gift cards as an incentive and refreshments for the 5 events.
SES - Stormy Fuller - Presidential Portraits: A Third-Grade Exploration - $480
This project would impact 18 third-grade students by publishing a book based on the class's research reports. Each student would receive a book.
SES - Macy Crispin - Annual Family Art Night - $1130
This grant would provide supplies for families to create art projects (decorative towels) at the 3rd Annual Family Art Night at Southwest Elementary. It would also provide hot chocolate for the event,
SES - Hope Miller - Recorders in the Elementary Music Class - $149
300 music students at Southwest would benefit from this grant, which would purchase 40 recorders for the music classroom. The students would learn how to read music notes, rhythms, dynamics, etc. The recorders would be used for several years
SES - Shakira Thigpen - Transforming Learning for our Students - $1500
The third-grade teachers are seeking funding to transform third-grade classroom environments at Southwest to create a fun, engaging and stimulating learning space. This grant would purchase several themed supplies for the classrooms.
SES - Ginger England - Let's Glow and Show What You Know - $805
The purpose of this grant proposal is to secure funding for a 7-session boot camp aimed at enhancing ELA and Math Skills of 150 4th grade students. The grant includes teacher tshirts for boot camp days, incentive prizes and classroom decorations,
SES - Christy Stephens - Stories, STEM, & Strategies - Oh, My! - $322
This grant will impact all students at Southwest (620). The students have Storybook STEM time where they will listen to a story, and then have opportunities to work together to create and engage in challenging activities. This grant will purchase supplies for the STEM projects.
NES - Grace Guadarrama - Regulating is Rad - $436
The aim of this grant is to help 19 first grade students understand the emotions that they are feeling and how to properly navigate those feelings and emotions. The grant would purchase books concerning emotions.
NES - Shelby Ray - "Let's give them something to talk about" - $303
This grant would purchase supplies to impact English Language Learners at Nance. These supplies would be used to engage the multilingual students in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
NES - Mandi Bridges - Calm Down Boxes for Every Classroom - $490
This grant would help begin an initiative that seeks to improve classroom management and student well-being by introducing "Calm Down Boxes" in every classroom (360 students). Each box will be equipped with sensory items and charts outlining emotional regulation strategies.
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANT APPLICATIONS
GOLD Academy - Casey Perez, counselor - Achieving Gold - $903
At Gold Academy, students are required to set personal goals for attendance, academic,s and behavior. With this grant, they set up visual minders and motivators to help them stay focused on the goals they have set for themselves. The grant would purchase supplies to create binders for each student.
NES - Tasha Jefferson, Principal - A Vending Adventure in Reading - $3000
This grant will impact 592 students at Southwest by empowering an initiative to improve teacher and student attendance. The grant will purchase books and incentives for students.
SES - Amber Sawatzky, Assistant Principal - Attendance Matters Initiative - $1170
This grant will impact all students at Nance to improve attendance and literacy. This grant is seeking funding to purchase an Inchy Book Vending Machine, a creative and impactful tool designed to motivate students in both areas.
Spring 2024 Grant Summaries
16 grants totaling $15,986.00
CHS - Guneet Kaur - Natural Drainage Cleaner - $2300
Students in the CHS Chemistry and Honors Chemistry classes (89) will study the reaction between baking soda and vinegar as a natural drain cleaner. Students will be asked to use stoichiometry calculations to find molar masses and the number of moles of reactants and products.
CHS - Michelle Granger - Greenwood/Tulsa Race Massacre - $1390
80 seniors will travel to Tulsa to explore the landmarks related to the Tulsa Race Massacre and Greenwood
CHS - Rayne Wherritt - Hands on White Boards and Markers - $92
Whiteboards and markers would be purchased by this grant to be used in Algebra 1 classes at CHS for students to practice math skills. These whiteboards would be reused for several years.
CHS - Brittany Miller - Line of Reasoning--Escape Rooms - $2090
44 AP juniors and seniors will travel to the Red Door Escape Room to study line of reasoning that they will later use in argumentative essays in the AP classroom
CHS - Wes Miller - Academic Contest Buzzer System - $1884
2 buzzer systems for Academic Team competitions would be purchased through this grant. The buzzer systems would be used for the District Froshmore Academic meets as well as meets at CMS and WES.
CHS/Gold Academy - JoDee Adney - Aquaponics: Tranquil Discoveries - $236
This grant would allow approximately 100 9-12 grade students to study how aquaponics is a system that functions within the circular econom,y which aims to use everything and waste nothing. The aquaponics unit will also serve as a calming corner for students.
CMS - Casey Perez - Interactive Math Classroom - $232
This grant would purchase a Roku streaming device and a pencil to aid in math instruction by allowing the teacher to walk around the room while projecting on the smart board. Students will also receive pencils to write their findings.
Washington - MaryKathryn Daughtery - Newsies Junior - Washington Musical - $906
Approximately 342 students at Washington will be involved in 4 musical productions of Newsies either as cast members or crew member. This will be the final Broadway production for WES. This grant will buy supplies and costumes for the production.
Washington - Allison Resendiz - Keep Calm and Buzz On - $1884
This grant would purchase 2 buzzer systems that could be used by the entire district's academic teams as WES, CMS, and CHS. Initially, they would be used at WES to host academic meets.
Washington - Jazlyn Slater - Pages of Possibility: Creating a Classroom of Readers - $200
Approximately 63 5th-grade students will benefit from this grant, which will allow new books to be added to the classroom library.
Washington - Jessica Cox - Zooming In! - $904
Fifth-grade GT students (approximately 30) will study germ transmission through binocular microscopes and common slides.
Southwest - Allison Watson and Yolanda Pool - Authors in Training - $945
Two second-grade classrooms, approximately 40 students, will create books and have them bound, so they can take them home.
Southwest - Kenzie Medina - Learning with Legos - $393
This grant will help re-create a Lego Creation Station where children feel inspired to create through play while developing the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. 465 2nd-4th graders will be able to create, collaborate, communicate and use critical thinking skills with these legos in the Maker Space.
Southwest - Katie Daugherty, Shawna Rivas, Manea Brown, Aleksi Richert, Shakira Thigpen, Kaleb Longhofer, Shelley Oyler - Mastery Boot Camp - $1892
All 150 3rd-grade students would participate in Mastery Boot Camp before taking the CFA for the math essential standards. This project has already begun, and students have improved from a 57% pass rate to an 81% pass rate.
Nance - Hillary Barnes and Melissa Stewart, Grace Guadarrama - First Grade Green Giants: Growing Little Gardens - $238
60 1st-grade students will grow plants and keep an observation journal to report their findings.
PRINCIPAL GRANT
Nance - Janalyn Taylor - Nance Family Fun - $400
Nance students and families will play carnival games, have hot dogs, cotton candy, and popcorn while winning prizes. Community groups will perform during the evening.
Students in the CHS Chemistry and Honors Chemistry classes (89) will study the reaction between baking soda and vinegar as a natural drain cleaner. Students will be asked to use stoichiometry calculations to find molar masses and the number of moles of reactants and products.
CHS - Michelle Granger - Greenwood/Tulsa Race Massacre - $1390
80 seniors will travel to Tulsa to explore the landmarks related to the Tulsa Race Massacre and Greenwood
CHS - Rayne Wherritt - Hands on White Boards and Markers - $92
Whiteboards and markers would be purchased by this grant to be used in Algebra 1 classes at CHS for students to practice math skills. These whiteboards would be reused for several years.
CHS - Brittany Miller - Line of Reasoning--Escape Rooms - $2090
44 AP juniors and seniors will travel to the Red Door Escape Room to study line of reasoning that they will later use in argumentative essays in the AP classroom
CHS - Wes Miller - Academic Contest Buzzer System - $1884
2 buzzer systems for Academic Team competitions would be purchased through this grant. The buzzer systems would be used for the District Froshmore Academic meets as well as meets at CMS and WES.
CHS/Gold Academy - JoDee Adney - Aquaponics: Tranquil Discoveries - $236
This grant would allow approximately 100 9-12 grade students to study how aquaponics is a system that functions within the circular econom,y which aims to use everything and waste nothing. The aquaponics unit will also serve as a calming corner for students.
CMS - Casey Perez - Interactive Math Classroom - $232
This grant would purchase a Roku streaming device and a pencil to aid in math instruction by allowing the teacher to walk around the room while projecting on the smart board. Students will also receive pencils to write their findings.
Washington - MaryKathryn Daughtery - Newsies Junior - Washington Musical - $906
Approximately 342 students at Washington will be involved in 4 musical productions of Newsies either as cast members or crew member. This will be the final Broadway production for WES. This grant will buy supplies and costumes for the production.
Washington - Allison Resendiz - Keep Calm and Buzz On - $1884
This grant would purchase 2 buzzer systems that could be used by the entire district's academic teams as WES, CMS, and CHS. Initially, they would be used at WES to host academic meets.
Washington - Jazlyn Slater - Pages of Possibility: Creating a Classroom of Readers - $200
Approximately 63 5th-grade students will benefit from this grant, which will allow new books to be added to the classroom library.
Washington - Jessica Cox - Zooming In! - $904
Fifth-grade GT students (approximately 30) will study germ transmission through binocular microscopes and common slides.
Southwest - Allison Watson and Yolanda Pool - Authors in Training - $945
Two second-grade classrooms, approximately 40 students, will create books and have them bound, so they can take them home.
Southwest - Kenzie Medina - Learning with Legos - $393
This grant will help re-create a Lego Creation Station where children feel inspired to create through play while developing the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. 465 2nd-4th graders will be able to create, collaborate, communicate and use critical thinking skills with these legos in the Maker Space.
Southwest - Katie Daugherty, Shawna Rivas, Manea Brown, Aleksi Richert, Shakira Thigpen, Kaleb Longhofer, Shelley Oyler - Mastery Boot Camp - $1892
All 150 3rd-grade students would participate in Mastery Boot Camp before taking the CFA for the math essential standards. This project has already begun, and students have improved from a 57% pass rate to an 81% pass rate.
Nance - Hillary Barnes and Melissa Stewart, Grace Guadarrama - First Grade Green Giants: Growing Little Gardens - $238
60 1st-grade students will grow plants and keep an observation journal to report their findings.
PRINCIPAL GRANT
Nance - Janalyn Taylor - Nance Family Fun - $400
Nance students and families will play carnival games, have hot dogs, cotton candy, and popcorn while winning prizes. Community groups will perform during the evening.
Fall 2023 Grant Summaries
13 grants totaling $19,628.00
Sensory Toolbox for Kids $1050.00
Nance Elementary Kayla Yandell (Kindergarten teachers)
This grant will purchase sensory items that offer an opportunity for students to self-regulate and find solace during moments of heightened emotions or sensory overload for 130 kindergarten students.
Smile! You're on 1st Grade Camera $644.00
Nance Elementary Melissa Steward and Hillary Barnes
Fuji Mini Cameras and film will be purchased with this grant, so each of the 160 first grade students will use their photograph to physically move on the Goal Getters achievement board that is displayed in the Nance hallway as they master ELA standards or to use for personal goals with a positive mindset.
Take a Step on Our Stepping Stones $451.00
Southwest Elementary Jessica Cox, GT Students, Eunice Wilson-REDS 365 Director
As part of a real-life learning experience 4th grade students wrote this grant to solve a problem not having a dry, safe place to walk to class. In response to the problem, they will create stepping stones for their school. When they have the stepping stones made, they will place them outside the portable on the grass heading to the sidewalk.
Transforming Classes and Learning $1262.00
Southwest Elementary Kenzie Medina and the 2nd grade teachers
This funding will be used to purchase materials for 9 classroom transformations. This grant would equip all 2nd-grade classrooms with the supplies needed to temporarily transform their classroom theme to enhance our students learning experiences. Each transformation will incorporate lessons that follow the theme of the transformation.
5th Grade Science Experiments $2059.00
Washington Elementary Angela Evans and 5th grade teachers
With this grant, 220 fifth grade students will use hands-on learning through several experiments about physical and chemical changes, solutions, mixtures, moon phases, land forms, earths core, and the water cycle.
Empower Cross-curricular Exploration with a 3-D Printer Total project: $1249.00 Amount funded: $249.00
Washington Elementary Jazlyn Slater
This grant will complete a project that is partially funded by Donor's Choose. Approximately 60 5th graders will experience 21st Century skills through the use of a 3D printer. Through hands-on design and production, our students will regain lost opportunities for experiential learning, fostering a deeper understanding of core concepts while building problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
Broadway Musical Study $1980.00
Clinton Middle School Kim Duerksen
This grant would allow 33 CMS students to study the story of "Wicked," then visit the Broadway show in Oklahoma City. After the visit, the students will evaluate the performance and relate it to their experiences of performing on stage.
Archery in Schools $892.00
Clinton Middle School / Clinton High School Greg Granger
This grant will add to and upgrade equipment so the archery program can give the team members the best possible chance to go to the national competition on the middle school and high school levels.
Killers of the Flower Moon $1399.00
Clinton High School Michele Granger
Through this grant 90 juniors and seniors will read the book, "Killers of the Flower Moon," then view the movie based on the book and interact with an author expert. Carlos Moreno, about the Osage murders.
Media Journalism Focus Film Total Project: $7092.00 Amount Funded: $3500.00
Clinton High School Ashley Kelley
Partial funding of this grant will help approximately 50 9th - 12th grade students in Journalism, Communications, Broadcasting, and Advanced Broadcasting will use equipment to film various projects throughout the school, primarily a focus film project that students will research and develop for a showcase that will allow others to see the impact that media journalism has on our everyday lives.
Defects in Blood $2800.00
Clinton High School Guneet Kaur
This project will help 47 Biology I students learn in-depth knowledge of genetics and heredity with an emphasis on Sickle Cell Disease. It will also impact students from different backgrounds since this disease occurs in certain ethnic groups. They will apply the knowledge that they learn to make 3-dimensional models.
PRINCIPAL'S GRANTS
Principal's Corner $2372.00
Southwest Elementary April Miner
This grant boosts Mrs. Miner's Principal's Corner Read Alouds with all the students at Southwest Elementary. By dressing like a character in the book, Miner will encourage reading at the 2nd - 4th grade levels while encouraging social-emotional learning and other unique themes covered in the books.
Washington Family Night $970.00
Washington Elementary Gene Ray
Through this grant, Mr. Ray will add a game night to the successful Washington Family Night. The students and families would have the opportunity to come early before the movie and play yard games with their families.
Nance Elementary Kayla Yandell (Kindergarten teachers)
This grant will purchase sensory items that offer an opportunity for students to self-regulate and find solace during moments of heightened emotions or sensory overload for 130 kindergarten students.
Smile! You're on 1st Grade Camera $644.00
Nance Elementary Melissa Steward and Hillary Barnes
Fuji Mini Cameras and film will be purchased with this grant, so each of the 160 first grade students will use their photograph to physically move on the Goal Getters achievement board that is displayed in the Nance hallway as they master ELA standards or to use for personal goals with a positive mindset.
Take a Step on Our Stepping Stones $451.00
Southwest Elementary Jessica Cox, GT Students, Eunice Wilson-REDS 365 Director
As part of a real-life learning experience 4th grade students wrote this grant to solve a problem not having a dry, safe place to walk to class. In response to the problem, they will create stepping stones for their school. When they have the stepping stones made, they will place them outside the portable on the grass heading to the sidewalk.
Transforming Classes and Learning $1262.00
Southwest Elementary Kenzie Medina and the 2nd grade teachers
This funding will be used to purchase materials for 9 classroom transformations. This grant would equip all 2nd-grade classrooms with the supplies needed to temporarily transform their classroom theme to enhance our students learning experiences. Each transformation will incorporate lessons that follow the theme of the transformation.
5th Grade Science Experiments $2059.00
Washington Elementary Angela Evans and 5th grade teachers
With this grant, 220 fifth grade students will use hands-on learning through several experiments about physical and chemical changes, solutions, mixtures, moon phases, land forms, earths core, and the water cycle.
Empower Cross-curricular Exploration with a 3-D Printer Total project: $1249.00 Amount funded: $249.00
Washington Elementary Jazlyn Slater
This grant will complete a project that is partially funded by Donor's Choose. Approximately 60 5th graders will experience 21st Century skills through the use of a 3D printer. Through hands-on design and production, our students will regain lost opportunities for experiential learning, fostering a deeper understanding of core concepts while building problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
Broadway Musical Study $1980.00
Clinton Middle School Kim Duerksen
This grant would allow 33 CMS students to study the story of "Wicked," then visit the Broadway show in Oklahoma City. After the visit, the students will evaluate the performance and relate it to their experiences of performing on stage.
Archery in Schools $892.00
Clinton Middle School / Clinton High School Greg Granger
This grant will add to and upgrade equipment so the archery program can give the team members the best possible chance to go to the national competition on the middle school and high school levels.
Killers of the Flower Moon $1399.00
Clinton High School Michele Granger
Through this grant 90 juniors and seniors will read the book, "Killers of the Flower Moon," then view the movie based on the book and interact with an author expert. Carlos Moreno, about the Osage murders.
Media Journalism Focus Film Total Project: $7092.00 Amount Funded: $3500.00
Clinton High School Ashley Kelley
Partial funding of this grant will help approximately 50 9th - 12th grade students in Journalism, Communications, Broadcasting, and Advanced Broadcasting will use equipment to film various projects throughout the school, primarily a focus film project that students will research and develop for a showcase that will allow others to see the impact that media journalism has on our everyday lives.
Defects in Blood $2800.00
Clinton High School Guneet Kaur
This project will help 47 Biology I students learn in-depth knowledge of genetics and heredity with an emphasis on Sickle Cell Disease. It will also impact students from different backgrounds since this disease occurs in certain ethnic groups. They will apply the knowledge that they learn to make 3-dimensional models.
PRINCIPAL'S GRANTS
Principal's Corner $2372.00
Southwest Elementary April Miner
This grant boosts Mrs. Miner's Principal's Corner Read Alouds with all the students at Southwest Elementary. By dressing like a character in the book, Miner will encourage reading at the 2nd - 4th grade levels while encouraging social-emotional learning and other unique themes covered in the books.
Washington Family Night $970.00
Washington Elementary Gene Ray
Through this grant, Mr. Ray will add a game night to the successful Washington Family Night. The students and families would have the opportunity to come early before the movie and play yard games with their families.
Spring 2023 Grant Summaries
23 Grants totaling $30,633
First Americans Museum Fieldtrip
CHS. Emma Seiter
This grant provides funding for all freshman at CHS to engage in an extended learning experience to the First Americans Museum.The focus of the field trip will be the study of Native American history in Oklahoma.
Beadsmith Jewelry
CHS. Joy Badillo
This grant is an extension of a successful fall 2022 grant, All 2-D art students at CHS will choose a piece of jewelry to complete and learn the history of Native American beading.
Navigating Life Virtually
CHS. Amanda Campbell
Using virtual reality headsets, this grant will help the 13 students in Mrs. Campbell's self-contained classroom to experience such things as job skills, fieldtrips and other adventures
Think Big
CHS. Whitney Misak
With a possibility of reaching more than 1,800 students in the years to come, this grant fund several different 3D science models. Those models will include human muscles, human skeleton, human skull, brain and other parts of the human body. Students will be able to disassemble and reassemble these models to understand the human body.
First American Museum (with a focus on assimilation)
CHSMichele Granger
This grant will allow 40 senior English students to visit the First American Museum, then return to the classroom to share their experiences with other students. This project is part of the OSU Writing Project in Mrs. Granger's class that creates inquiry projects about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Clinton FFA Sporting Clays Team
CHS. Mitchell Hunter
This grant will support the fairly new CHS Sporting Clays Team by purchasing trap throwers, guns, safety equipment and other items that will help them practice for competitions across the state.
Camp Invention
CMS. John Fowler
This grant will allow 14 students, grades K-9, scholarships to attend Camp Invention. Two different 5-day camps will take place at Middle School during June and July 2023.
Archery Program
CMS. Greg Granger
This grant is a continuation of the archery program at CMS program started with an earlier CPSF grant. New parts for the bows and arrows as well as cases will be purchased to update the current bows and arrows.
Classroom Reward System
CMS. Jazlyn Slater
Ms. Slater currently has a successful classroom reward system. This grant would supply items to help enhance that program.
Day at the Science Museum
CMS. Renee Perkins
All 135 7th grade CMS students would take a trip to the Oklahoma Science Museum with this grant funding. They will use the digital app GooseChase to complete a digital scavenger hunt while there.
WES Math Night
WES. Angela Evans
Parents and students of Washington Elementary will participate in a math night where students will show off their math skills for their fmilies. This grant will fund prizes for the event.
Lexia Superstars
WES. Jan Loving
Lexia SuperStars will provide 277 5th and 6th grade students at Washington Elementary the opportunity to earn the title of Lexia SuperStar each month and receive incentives for their efforts.
Literacy Fair
WES. Diane McCrite
A popular annual event at Washington will provide students the opportunity to present a fiction book in a fair atmostphere. The grant will supply the tri-fold boards for the projects, prizes, snacks for judges, and address labels
Glowing Up Washington
WES. Sarah Kerr
Glowing up Washington, involves using Glow materials to enhance, motivate, and inspire students in learning and embracing skills being taught in multiple subjects. Glow ideas to help improve test scores include glow Jenga, reading with flashlights, glow highlighted passages, and glow bowling.
Washington Presents Peter Pan, Jr.
WES. MaryKathryn Daugherty
All approximate 278 students at Washington will be involved in a musical production of Peter Pan, Jr. either as cast members or crew members. This grant will help provide items needed for the backdrops and props for the play.
Glow and Grow Review:
WES. Lindsey Baker
Enhancing 5th Grade LA Standards Mastery for State Testing
The "Glow and Glow Review" program will use a combination of hands-on activities and technology to engage students and enhance their understanding and retention of the material to prepare students for state testing.
Fast Finisher Bins
SES. Jessica Cox
This grant will benefit 122 GT students in grades PK-6. The Fast Finishers STEM Bins are a hands-on solution to students who complete the assignment in the time allotted with extra time to spare. The grant will provide puzzle pattern blocks and storage bins for individualized creative thinking.
Author Adventure
SES. Christy Stephens
Author Dan Gutman will Zoom with approx. 470 students at Southwest Elementary to share his knowledge about writing a story and the experiences of being an author.
The Color Monster
NES. Shawna Hardin
A Monster Collaboration in Social Emotional Awareness and Self Regulation
Nance students and high school students will collaborate to create a monster to deal with self-awareness and self-management. Nance students will draw monsters demonstrating feelings with colors, then the high school students will turn those drawiings into 3D renderings of the monsters.
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANTS
Southwest Student-Led Shirt Designs and Production
SES. April Minor
Southwest Student Led Shirt Designs and Production will allow students to be involved in the production and creation of their class t-shirts. This grant would provide for a heat press and Circut machine for repeated use in t-shirt designs.
Reading with the Red Tornadoes
NES Janalyn Taylor
As a kick-off for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, Reading with the Red Tornadoes will be a Nance family reading event. The event will take place in the domeand high school students from various athletic teams and extracurricular groups will be there to read with Nance students.
Creating a school-wide positive culture at CMS using celebrations
CMS. Nathan Meget
CMS celebrates student successes in academics, attendance, and behavior by rewarding students who are excelling or making impressive improvements in these areas. We call this being a CMS Champion. This grant would purchase supplies and drawing awards.
Fall 2022 Grant Summaries
18 Grants totalling $17,749
CLASSROOM GRANTS
Anchor Text: Dreamland Burning $545
Michele Granger, CHS
For this grant, senior English students, as part of the OSU Writing Project, will use the anchor text,
Dreamland Burning, to create inquiry projects about the Tulsa Race Massacre
which will be showcased in the spring of 2023.
What Do We Eat Everyday? $2500
Guneet Kaur, CHS
Approximately 80 students enrolled in Biology 1 and AP Biology will use food they eat regularly
and analyze it to find the components. The grant provides the chemicals needed for that analysis.
The Art of the Game $613.20
Melissa Fulsom, CHS
This grant will allow all 3D art students to learn the process of epoxy art.
Students will use molds to create games such as dominos, checkers and checkerboards
and tic tac toe boards to be donated to the Clinton Veteran's Center.
Party Like Gatsby $645.98
Brittany Miller, CHS
After reading the novel, The Great Gatsby, approximately 100 English III and AP Literature students will write essays
then celebrate with a "Gatsby-like" party as a reward for their work with the novel.
The grant will provide food and decorations for the party.
Beadsmith Jewelry $900
Joy Badillo, CHS
This grant will allow approximately to 70 Applied Arts students to design and create a beaded necklace,
bracelet or earring set after studying the history of beading and the art of Native American beading.
Horticulture and History $424
JoDee Adney, CHS Gold Academy
This grant will allow seven GOLD Academy students to visit the Myriad Botanical Gardens,
the Oklahoma City renovated underground tunnels, and a guided tour of the canals
to learn the history of the area and the the science of plants.
Photography Field Trip / Workshop $2500
Steve Wheeler, CHS and CMS
This grant will allow approximately 100 photography student in middle school and high school
to take a photography field trip to the Oklahoma City Zoo and possibly the Wichita Wildlife Refuge or Red Rock Canyon.
Photos taken on the trip will be displayed in digital and print form at their respective campuses.
Incentivizing Parental Involvement in our Annual College and Career Fair $537
Tanner Wheeler, CMS and CHS
All 888 middle school and high school students will be eligible for prizes (Apple Airpods) funded by this grant
by attending the College and Career Fair on November 8. In order to increase parent involvement,
students will receive extra chances to win the prizes if their parents attend the event.
Stained Glass Window Panes $1000
Megan Malloy, CMS
This grant provides supplies for 42 eighth grade Art II students to create stained glass panel
including glass cutting, copper foiling, assembly, soldering, and finishing.
VEX IQ Robot $449
Jessica Cox, Washington Elementary
Fifth and Sixth grade Gifted and Talented students at Washington Elementary will collaborate to build basebot robots,
which is the foundation for many robots. Through the grant, more advanced VEX IQ robots will be purchased
for the students to work together to build, code, practice and participate in robot challenges.
Aquaponics in the Classroom $350
Tiffany Taton, Washington Elementary
Sixth grade students in Taton's science classroom will study an aquatic ecosystem by observing an aquaponics system
purchased through this grant. The system will include fish at the bottom and plants at the top grown from seeds.
Tape Measure Accuracy $975
Regina Miller, Washington Elementary
Sixth grade students in Miller's math classes will learn about reading tape measures purchased through this grant.
Students will learn how to add, subtract and reduce fractions as part of this project.
The Golden Book $2000
Allison Watson, Southwest Elementary
This grant will partially fund the purchase of the Bookworm Vending Machine for Southwest Elementary.
The Bookworm program helps bridge the gap between literacy and engagement by making reading fun.
Students who meet their reading goal or fulfil a bucket filling action receive a golden token
to choose a book from the vending machine.
Annual Family Art Night $1500
Macy Stark, Southwest Elementary
All students and their families at Southwest Elementary will benefit from this grant that will help promote art and family.
Santa's Workshop scheduled for December 1 will be an evening for families to attend together,
take a family photo in the photo booth, make an ornament and create a family garland.
Coffee and hot chocolate will also be served at the event.
Oh, Snap! $577.11
Tasha Jefferson, Nance Elementary
First grade students will improve their site word retention as well as their ability to use those words
correctly in speech and writing by using SnapWords cards purchased through this grant.
This program uses whole body movement to reflect the meaning of the words.
Read with Me...Talk to Me...Help Me Understand. $613.25
Shelby Ray, Nance Elementary
This grant will help fund a project to create a family lending library at Nance Elementary.
The lending library will be available to parents to check out books to use as a resource when dealing
with tough situations with their child. Parents will receive a list of book titles and topics,
then can request a book be sent home with their child. Books will also be available to the school counselor.
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANTS
Washington Family Movie Night $1000
Gene Ray, Washington Elementary
To help increase community and parent engagement, families of Washington Elementary
students will be invited for movies and popcorn in the gym monthly as part of this grant.
GOLD Academy Excellence Plan $640
Ron Smith, CHS Gold Academy
All students at GOLD Academy will be rewarded for positive actions by receiving tickets
that will be included in a drawing every two weeks. The drawing will be for gift cards to a local business.
The grant will help fund the rewards for good attendance, continued course progress and good behavior while at school.
Anchor Text: Dreamland Burning $545
Michele Granger, CHS
For this grant, senior English students, as part of the OSU Writing Project, will use the anchor text,
Dreamland Burning, to create inquiry projects about the Tulsa Race Massacre
which will be showcased in the spring of 2023.
What Do We Eat Everyday? $2500
Guneet Kaur, CHS
Approximately 80 students enrolled in Biology 1 and AP Biology will use food they eat regularly
and analyze it to find the components. The grant provides the chemicals needed for that analysis.
The Art of the Game $613.20
Melissa Fulsom, CHS
This grant will allow all 3D art students to learn the process of epoxy art.
Students will use molds to create games such as dominos, checkers and checkerboards
and tic tac toe boards to be donated to the Clinton Veteran's Center.
Party Like Gatsby $645.98
Brittany Miller, CHS
After reading the novel, The Great Gatsby, approximately 100 English III and AP Literature students will write essays
then celebrate with a "Gatsby-like" party as a reward for their work with the novel.
The grant will provide food and decorations for the party.
Beadsmith Jewelry $900
Joy Badillo, CHS
This grant will allow approximately to 70 Applied Arts students to design and create a beaded necklace,
bracelet or earring set after studying the history of beading and the art of Native American beading.
Horticulture and History $424
JoDee Adney, CHS Gold Academy
This grant will allow seven GOLD Academy students to visit the Myriad Botanical Gardens,
the Oklahoma City renovated underground tunnels, and a guided tour of the canals
to learn the history of the area and the the science of plants.
Photography Field Trip / Workshop $2500
Steve Wheeler, CHS and CMS
This grant will allow approximately 100 photography student in middle school and high school
to take a photography field trip to the Oklahoma City Zoo and possibly the Wichita Wildlife Refuge or Red Rock Canyon.
Photos taken on the trip will be displayed in digital and print form at their respective campuses.
Incentivizing Parental Involvement in our Annual College and Career Fair $537
Tanner Wheeler, CMS and CHS
All 888 middle school and high school students will be eligible for prizes (Apple Airpods) funded by this grant
by attending the College and Career Fair on November 8. In order to increase parent involvement,
students will receive extra chances to win the prizes if their parents attend the event.
Stained Glass Window Panes $1000
Megan Malloy, CMS
This grant provides supplies for 42 eighth grade Art II students to create stained glass panel
including glass cutting, copper foiling, assembly, soldering, and finishing.
VEX IQ Robot $449
Jessica Cox, Washington Elementary
Fifth and Sixth grade Gifted and Talented students at Washington Elementary will collaborate to build basebot robots,
which is the foundation for many robots. Through the grant, more advanced VEX IQ robots will be purchased
for the students to work together to build, code, practice and participate in robot challenges.
Aquaponics in the Classroom $350
Tiffany Taton, Washington Elementary
Sixth grade students in Taton's science classroom will study an aquatic ecosystem by observing an aquaponics system
purchased through this grant. The system will include fish at the bottom and plants at the top grown from seeds.
Tape Measure Accuracy $975
Regina Miller, Washington Elementary
Sixth grade students in Miller's math classes will learn about reading tape measures purchased through this grant.
Students will learn how to add, subtract and reduce fractions as part of this project.
The Golden Book $2000
Allison Watson, Southwest Elementary
This grant will partially fund the purchase of the Bookworm Vending Machine for Southwest Elementary.
The Bookworm program helps bridge the gap between literacy and engagement by making reading fun.
Students who meet their reading goal or fulfil a bucket filling action receive a golden token
to choose a book from the vending machine.
Annual Family Art Night $1500
Macy Stark, Southwest Elementary
All students and their families at Southwest Elementary will benefit from this grant that will help promote art and family.
Santa's Workshop scheduled for December 1 will be an evening for families to attend together,
take a family photo in the photo booth, make an ornament and create a family garland.
Coffee and hot chocolate will also be served at the event.
Oh, Snap! $577.11
Tasha Jefferson, Nance Elementary
First grade students will improve their site word retention as well as their ability to use those words
correctly in speech and writing by using SnapWords cards purchased through this grant.
This program uses whole body movement to reflect the meaning of the words.
Read with Me...Talk to Me...Help Me Understand. $613.25
Shelby Ray, Nance Elementary
This grant will help fund a project to create a family lending library at Nance Elementary.
The lending library will be available to parents to check out books to use as a resource when dealing
with tough situations with their child. Parents will receive a list of book titles and topics,
then can request a book be sent home with their child. Books will also be available to the school counselor.
PRINCIPAL SITE GRANTS
Washington Family Movie Night $1000
Gene Ray, Washington Elementary
To help increase community and parent engagement, families of Washington Elementary
students will be invited for movies and popcorn in the gym monthly as part of this grant.
GOLD Academy Excellence Plan $640
Ron Smith, CHS Gold Academy
All students at GOLD Academy will be rewarded for positive actions by receiving tickets
that will be included in a drawing every two weeks. The drawing will be for gift cards to a local business.
The grant will help fund the rewards for good attendance, continued course progress and good behavior while at school.
Spring 2022 Grant Summary
10 Grants Awarded totaling $15,507
NANCE
Wanna Play?....Play with a Purpose, $1,339.39 authored by Janalyn Taylor. This principal site grant will provide an indoor, imaginative play area including a coffee shop, hardware store, and doll house. Construction work will be done by Clinton High School CTAP students.
Learning by Light, $1,322 authored by Heather Davis. Light tables will be provided for one pre-k and two kindergarten classrooms and used for hand-on activities.
SOUTHWEST
The Principal’s Corner, $2,500, authored by April Miner. This principal site grant will continue an existing program of the principal reading to a class and discussing a book followed by the class receiving a copy of the book to read on their own.
WASHINGTON
Polymer Clay Trinket Trays, $3,000, authored by Macy Stark. Art students in 5th and 6th grade will create polymer clay sugar skull trays in conjunction with a study of Hispanic heritage around Cinco de Mayo.
Literacy Fair, $1,885, authored by Washington ELA teachers. This annual event allows students to each do an expanded book report and display board illustrating elements of their selected fiction book.
Annie Jr. the Musical, $862, authored by MaryKathryn Daugherty. The grant will fund set building materials for a first-ever musical to be performed by 5th and 6th grade students.
CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Breakout Boxes, $1,200, authored by Marilyn Norman. Math students will work collaboratively to solve problems with math concepts in an attempt to open locks on different breakout boxes.
Flexible Learning Environments, $1,700, authored by Casey Perez. Flexible seating and materials for outdoor learning will be provided for math students.
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL
STEM Robotics, $1,350, authored by Jenny Acuff-Roberts. Algebra 1 and 2 students will be introduced to coding with the programming of cue robots.
Position, Velocity, and Acceleration using Motion Detectors, $249, authored by Wes Miller. Motion detectors will be used in Calculus and Pre-Calculus classes to match graphs
10 Grants Awarded totaling $15,507
NANCE
Wanna Play?....Play with a Purpose, $1,339.39 authored by Janalyn Taylor. This principal site grant will provide an indoor, imaginative play area including a coffee shop, hardware store, and doll house. Construction work will be done by Clinton High School CTAP students.
Learning by Light, $1,322 authored by Heather Davis. Light tables will be provided for one pre-k and two kindergarten classrooms and used for hand-on activities.
SOUTHWEST
The Principal’s Corner, $2,500, authored by April Miner. This principal site grant will continue an existing program of the principal reading to a class and discussing a book followed by the class receiving a copy of the book to read on their own.
WASHINGTON
Polymer Clay Trinket Trays, $3,000, authored by Macy Stark. Art students in 5th and 6th grade will create polymer clay sugar skull trays in conjunction with a study of Hispanic heritage around Cinco de Mayo.
Literacy Fair, $1,885, authored by Washington ELA teachers. This annual event allows students to each do an expanded book report and display board illustrating elements of their selected fiction book.
Annie Jr. the Musical, $862, authored by MaryKathryn Daugherty. The grant will fund set building materials for a first-ever musical to be performed by 5th and 6th grade students.
CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Breakout Boxes, $1,200, authored by Marilyn Norman. Math students will work collaboratively to solve problems with math concepts in an attempt to open locks on different breakout boxes.
Flexible Learning Environments, $1,700, authored by Casey Perez. Flexible seating and materials for outdoor learning will be provided for math students.
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL
STEM Robotics, $1,350, authored by Jenny Acuff-Roberts. Algebra 1 and 2 students will be introduced to coding with the programming of cue robots.
Position, Velocity, and Acceleration using Motion Detectors, $249, authored by Wes Miller. Motion detectors will be used in Calculus and Pre-Calculus classes to match graphs
CPSF 2021 Fall Grants
Twenty Awards Totaling $29,979
NANCE
Pop It!, $237.86 – Awarded to Jessica Cox. Jumbo pop it game board will be used for math games in all first grade classrooms.
SOUTHWEST
Southwest Art Room, $4,235.96 - Awarded as a site grant to April Miner. Supplies to set up the new art classroom were purchased to have art class instruction for 2nd-4th grade students.
Camp Invention, $3,370 – Awarded to John Fowler. Fourteen students of financial need, ranging from first to ninth grades, will be provided a scholarship to Camp Invention next summer at the Stafford Air and Museum next summer. This award will benefit students at least four of the five Clinton school sites.
Boogie Boards, $500 – Awarded to Mary Cates. Mess-free writing tablets will be used in this second grade room in place of dry erase boards.
WASHINGTON
Active Seating, $700 – Awarded to Kaylee Williams. Wobble cushions and bean bag chairs would provide alternative seating to two 5th grade classrooms.
Flex your way to Brilliance, $675.83 – Awarded to Toni Dixon. A variety of flexible seating will be provided to three 5th grade classrooms.
Cyclone Clubs, $755.52 – Awarded to Ashely Miller. Extracurricular clubs will provide opportunities for all Washington students to explore their interests. The grant will fund start-up supplies for these clubs covering a variety of interests.
Washington STEM Night, $450 – Awarded to Robin Rodriquez. STEM Night allows parents to experiences science and engineering projects and activities along side their students.
CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Archery Program, $2,727.36 – Awarded to Greg Granger. An archery program will begin at CMS and teach interested students how to shoot a bow and arrow. This grant will provide all the supplies to begin the program.
Exploring our Solar System, $2,100 – Awarded to Brittany Evans. All 7th and 8th graders will visit the Science Museum of Oklahoma as a part of their studies of the solar system and the physics of space travel.
Angler Education, $504.70 - Awarded to Greg Granger. The Angler Program will promote the sport of fishing and aquatic resource awareness as well as a way to give youth an opportunity to learn about Oklahoma’s aquatic environments and how to fish.
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL
Do You Taste Proton in Food?, $2,500 – Awarded to Guneet Kaur. Chemistry I, Chemistry Honors and AP Chemistry classes will study the concept of acid base chemistry and its application in the world of science using Flinn ph meters.
Studio C News, $2,718 – Awarded to Ashley Kelley. Professional recording equipment will allow the broadcasting students at CHS to study the different components of a news broadcast and create their own version of the news called Studio C News. They will also use the equipment to teach and tutor students from the Middle School, so that they will be able to successfully broadcast events and their own news program.
Specially Designed Greetings, $807 – Awarded to Amanda Campbell. Supplies will be purchased for special education student to make greeting cards for the staff of Clinton high school and family members.
Factory Obscura, $470 – Awarded to Brittany Miller. AP Language & Composition students will visit Factory Obscura in Oklahoma City as a party of a non-fiction research study and analysis of traditional and an alternative medical treatments.
Drama Club’s “Dear Evan Hansen” Analysis, $572 – Awarded to Ashley Kelley. Drama Club students at Clinton High School will view the movie "Dear Evan Hansen," and have dinner to discuss the movie. "Dear Evan Hansen" is a movie premiering September 24th, based on the Broadway Musical of the same name.
Vocal Music Trip to Broadway, $4,320 – Awarded to Sandra Roulet. Clinton High School Vocal Music has been selected to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. While there, this grant will allow students to see a Broadway musical.
Flexible Seating for Cooperative Learning, $1,500 – Awarded to Michelle Granger. 11th and 12th grade language arts students will have alternative seating options for the classroom.
Skulls: A Night of Forensic Investigation, $434.80 – Awarded to JoDee Adney. Six alternative school students will attend Skeletons: Museum of Osteology for their night time Skulls: Forensics Event. Groups of students will be at a table containing skeletal remains which belong to a "mystery" case the students must solve.
Gold Academy Excellence Part 3, $400 – Awarded to Ron Smith. Alternative schools students will be entered into drawings to win gift cards as a reward to positive behavior and achievement.
Twenty Awards Totaling $29,979
NANCE
Pop It!, $237.86 – Awarded to Jessica Cox. Jumbo pop it game board will be used for math games in all first grade classrooms.
SOUTHWEST
Southwest Art Room, $4,235.96 - Awarded as a site grant to April Miner. Supplies to set up the new art classroom were purchased to have art class instruction for 2nd-4th grade students.
Camp Invention, $3,370 – Awarded to John Fowler. Fourteen students of financial need, ranging from first to ninth grades, will be provided a scholarship to Camp Invention next summer at the Stafford Air and Museum next summer. This award will benefit students at least four of the five Clinton school sites.
Boogie Boards, $500 – Awarded to Mary Cates. Mess-free writing tablets will be used in this second grade room in place of dry erase boards.
WASHINGTON
Active Seating, $700 – Awarded to Kaylee Williams. Wobble cushions and bean bag chairs would provide alternative seating to two 5th grade classrooms.
Flex your way to Brilliance, $675.83 – Awarded to Toni Dixon. A variety of flexible seating will be provided to three 5th grade classrooms.
Cyclone Clubs, $755.52 – Awarded to Ashely Miller. Extracurricular clubs will provide opportunities for all Washington students to explore their interests. The grant will fund start-up supplies for these clubs covering a variety of interests.
Washington STEM Night, $450 – Awarded to Robin Rodriquez. STEM Night allows parents to experiences science and engineering projects and activities along side their students.
CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Archery Program, $2,727.36 – Awarded to Greg Granger. An archery program will begin at CMS and teach interested students how to shoot a bow and arrow. This grant will provide all the supplies to begin the program.
Exploring our Solar System, $2,100 – Awarded to Brittany Evans. All 7th and 8th graders will visit the Science Museum of Oklahoma as a part of their studies of the solar system and the physics of space travel.
Angler Education, $504.70 - Awarded to Greg Granger. The Angler Program will promote the sport of fishing and aquatic resource awareness as well as a way to give youth an opportunity to learn about Oklahoma’s aquatic environments and how to fish.
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL
Do You Taste Proton in Food?, $2,500 – Awarded to Guneet Kaur. Chemistry I, Chemistry Honors and AP Chemistry classes will study the concept of acid base chemistry and its application in the world of science using Flinn ph meters.
Studio C News, $2,718 – Awarded to Ashley Kelley. Professional recording equipment will allow the broadcasting students at CHS to study the different components of a news broadcast and create their own version of the news called Studio C News. They will also use the equipment to teach and tutor students from the Middle School, so that they will be able to successfully broadcast events and their own news program.
Specially Designed Greetings, $807 – Awarded to Amanda Campbell. Supplies will be purchased for special education student to make greeting cards for the staff of Clinton high school and family members.
Factory Obscura, $470 – Awarded to Brittany Miller. AP Language & Composition students will visit Factory Obscura in Oklahoma City as a party of a non-fiction research study and analysis of traditional and an alternative medical treatments.
Drama Club’s “Dear Evan Hansen” Analysis, $572 – Awarded to Ashley Kelley. Drama Club students at Clinton High School will view the movie "Dear Evan Hansen," and have dinner to discuss the movie. "Dear Evan Hansen" is a movie premiering September 24th, based on the Broadway Musical of the same name.
Vocal Music Trip to Broadway, $4,320 – Awarded to Sandra Roulet. Clinton High School Vocal Music has been selected to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. While there, this grant will allow students to see a Broadway musical.
Flexible Seating for Cooperative Learning, $1,500 – Awarded to Michelle Granger. 11th and 12th grade language arts students will have alternative seating options for the classroom.
Skulls: A Night of Forensic Investigation, $434.80 – Awarded to JoDee Adney. Six alternative school students will attend Skeletons: Museum of Osteology for their night time Skulls: Forensics Event. Groups of students will be at a table containing skeletal remains which belong to a "mystery" case the students must solve.
Gold Academy Excellence Part 3, $400 – Awarded to Ron Smith. Alternative schools students will be entered into drawings to win gift cards as a reward to positive behavior and achievement.
Spring 2021 Grant Summary
6 Grants totaling $7,205.77
Southwest Elementary, Washington Elementary, and Clinton Middle School
Project Title: Be Creative, Be Innovative, Have Fun
Tonya Gaunt
Amount: 464.29
This grant will provide iPad equipment for GT students to create animated videos using green screens and iPads. Equipment will be shared and be used by other classes within the district as well.
Southwest
Project Title: Becoming an Author
$937.65
Kenzie Gifford and Allison Watson
Two 2nd grade classes will write and create their own books. Books will be bound and printed by a publisher.
Washington
Project Title: Stands and Sticks for Washington Music
$2,000.41
MaryKathryn Daugherty
Washington 5th and 6th graders will receive music stands to be used in music class, by Cyclone Singers and in band class. Additionally, a class set of rhythm sticks will be purchased to use by all music students.
Clinton High School
Mountain Man's Axe Throwing
$463.42
Brittany Miller
11th and 12th grade AP Literature students will take a field trip to Mountain Man Axe Throwing in Elk City after reading the dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The students will do a extensive literary analysis of the book as well.
Analysis of Dyes present in various food beverages.
$2,500
Dr. Guneet Kuar
11th and 12th grade AP Chemistry students will a Spectrophotometer Incubator and Instant Pot to calculate and study food additives in powdered beverage solutions AP Biology and Microbiology will also use this equipment.
Painting with Beeswax and Fire!
$840
Joy Badillo and Edward Bacon
Five Art Classes at CHS will use turn photographs into unique works of art by transferring the image onto wax.
6 Grants totaling $7,205.77
Southwest Elementary, Washington Elementary, and Clinton Middle School
Project Title: Be Creative, Be Innovative, Have Fun
Tonya Gaunt
Amount: 464.29
This grant will provide iPad equipment for GT students to create animated videos using green screens and iPads. Equipment will be shared and be used by other classes within the district as well.
Southwest
Project Title: Becoming an Author
$937.65
Kenzie Gifford and Allison Watson
Two 2nd grade classes will write and create their own books. Books will be bound and printed by a publisher.
Washington
Project Title: Stands and Sticks for Washington Music
$2,000.41
MaryKathryn Daugherty
Washington 5th and 6th graders will receive music stands to be used in music class, by Cyclone Singers and in band class. Additionally, a class set of rhythm sticks will be purchased to use by all music students.
Clinton High School
Mountain Man's Axe Throwing
$463.42
Brittany Miller
11th and 12th grade AP Literature students will take a field trip to Mountain Man Axe Throwing in Elk City after reading the dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The students will do a extensive literary analysis of the book as well.
Analysis of Dyes present in various food beverages.
$2,500
Dr. Guneet Kuar
11th and 12th grade AP Chemistry students will a Spectrophotometer Incubator and Instant Pot to calculate and study food additives in powdered beverage solutions AP Biology and Microbiology will also use this equipment.
Painting with Beeswax and Fire!
$840
Joy Badillo and Edward Bacon
Five Art Classes at CHS will use turn photographs into unique works of art by transferring the image onto wax.
2020 Fall Grant Summary
10 Grants Totaling $20,162.16
DISTRICT WIDE
Sound Equipment, $7,341.89 – Requested by April Abraham. An outdoor sound system will be purchased to be shared by the music teachers at all five school sites. CPSF is funding $5,000 of this request while Clinton Public Schools will provide the additional $2,341.89.
NANCE ELEMENTARY
Math Stackers Blocks for Learning, $594– Requested by Hillary Barnes. These manipulative learning blocks will be used by Pre-K and kindergarten students at Nance. They can be sued with student on many different educational levels.
Osmo for Firsties, $618 – Requested by Julie Littke. These tech accessories will build on the current OSMO learning systems at Nance. They will provide new games and activities for first graders.
SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY
Flexible Seating = Flexible Minds, $283.50 – Requested by Ashley McPhail. Alternative seating will be purchased to accommodate wiggly students who are required to stay on one place much longer due to Covid precautions.
Storybook STEM, $268.70 – Requested by Christy Stephens. Southwest students will participate in hands on activities related to a book of study. These activities will be done during the class collaboration time with the librarian.
WASHINGTON
Always Forward Washington, $667.46 – Requested by Ashley Covell. Large print books will be purchased for the Washington library. These books are helpful for students with specific learning impairments.
CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
3D Printing, $2,125.71 – Requested by Tanner Wheeler. A 3D printer will be purchased and used as a part of practical curriculum for Technology Education and Clinton Technical Applications Program (CTAP). This new 3D Printer will be used in addition to another one at CMS. Both can print from the cloud which means even students studying virtually can use them.
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL
GOLD Academy Excellence Plan (Part 2), $740 – Requested by Ron Smith. Funding will be used in alternative school to encourage attendance, progress, and good behavior. Gift cards and other incentive items will be purchased for prize drawings for alternative school students.
Clinton High School Greenhouse, $7,000 – Requested by Trevor Stover. In partnership with Clinton Public Schools and SportChassis, CPSF will provide this portion of the funding necessary to build a greenhouse for use by Ag students at CMS and CHS. FFA students will also provide the labor for this project.
Diversity in American Literature, $522.90 – Requested by Brittany Miller. Class sets of the novels “The House on Mango Street” and “Tulsa Burning” will be purchased for study by all English III students.
10 Grants Totaling $20,162.16
DISTRICT WIDE
Sound Equipment, $7,341.89 – Requested by April Abraham. An outdoor sound system will be purchased to be shared by the music teachers at all five school sites. CPSF is funding $5,000 of this request while Clinton Public Schools will provide the additional $2,341.89.
NANCE ELEMENTARY
Math Stackers Blocks for Learning, $594– Requested by Hillary Barnes. These manipulative learning blocks will be used by Pre-K and kindergarten students at Nance. They can be sued with student on many different educational levels.
Osmo for Firsties, $618 – Requested by Julie Littke. These tech accessories will build on the current OSMO learning systems at Nance. They will provide new games and activities for first graders.
SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY
Flexible Seating = Flexible Minds, $283.50 – Requested by Ashley McPhail. Alternative seating will be purchased to accommodate wiggly students who are required to stay on one place much longer due to Covid precautions.
Storybook STEM, $268.70 – Requested by Christy Stephens. Southwest students will participate in hands on activities related to a book of study. These activities will be done during the class collaboration time with the librarian.
WASHINGTON
Always Forward Washington, $667.46 – Requested by Ashley Covell. Large print books will be purchased for the Washington library. These books are helpful for students with specific learning impairments.
CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
3D Printing, $2,125.71 – Requested by Tanner Wheeler. A 3D printer will be purchased and used as a part of practical curriculum for Technology Education and Clinton Technical Applications Program (CTAP). This new 3D Printer will be used in addition to another one at CMS. Both can print from the cloud which means even students studying virtually can use them.
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL
GOLD Academy Excellence Plan (Part 2), $740 – Requested by Ron Smith. Funding will be used in alternative school to encourage attendance, progress, and good behavior. Gift cards and other incentive items will be purchased for prize drawings for alternative school students.
Clinton High School Greenhouse, $7,000 – Requested by Trevor Stover. In partnership with Clinton Public Schools and SportChassis, CPSF will provide this portion of the funding necessary to build a greenhouse for use by Ag students at CMS and CHS. FFA students will also provide the labor for this project.
Diversity in American Literature, $522.90 – Requested by Brittany Miller. Class sets of the novels “The House on Mango Street” and “Tulsa Burning” will be purchased for study by all English III students.
Spring 2020 Grant Awards
10 grant awards totaling $8,238.27
NANCE
Wild About Animals, authored by Jessica Cox, April Willoughby and Kayla Yandell, $1,030.
This program will bring the program Extreme Animals to Nance. Kindergarten students will have an up-close interactive zoo experience with animals at school.
Coding of Tomorrow, authored by Jessica Cox, $199.96. Software for first graders to learn coding with be purchased and used with the existing OSMO systems at Nance.
If You Give a Child a Book, authored by Shelby Ray, $1,500. First grade students will visit the SWOSU Career Fair and meet author and illustrator, Hannah Harrison. Each student will receive an autographed book by Harrison.
SOUTHWEST
Let’s Get our Glow On!, authored by Aide Flores, Ashley McPhail, Gabrielle Paul, and Aubrey Stanley, $239.96. These second grade classrooms will take an fun approach to academic standards reviews with room transformations that include black lighting.
WASHINGTON
STEM Night, $292.00, authored by Diane Keeton with the 5th and 6th grade science and math teachers. During the annual evening event in April, students and their families will have the opportunity to participate in many hands on technology and engineering projects and experiments.
Ceramics Unit Study, $400, authored by Lori Roach. 5th and 6th graders will each create a ceramic piece on art class.
Home Library, $1,500, principal site grant authored by Gene Ray. CPSF will provide funds to allow all Washington students to all take home books of their own at the end of the school year to grow their home library. Additional funds will be sought from community partners.
CHS
Audio Storytelling and Podcasting, $1,250, authored by Michelle Granger. Senior English students will learn to produce and broadcast their own podcasts.
ACT Escape Room, authored by Debbie Carlisle with all 9th-11th English teachers, $526.35. Escape rooms will be created in preparation of the April ACT test. Student must lean ACT test strategies and answer questions to “escape.”
Factory Obscura Field Trip, authored by Brittany Miller, $400.00. Honors English III, AP Composition, and AP Art students will visit the Factory Obscura art museum in Oklahoma City after various studies with related subject matter.
Wild About Animals, authored by Jessica Cox, April Willoughby and Kayla Yandell, $1,030.
This program will bring the program Extreme Animals to Nance. Kindergarten students will have an up-close interactive zoo experience with animals at school.
Coding of Tomorrow, authored by Jessica Cox, $199.96. Software for first graders to learn coding with be purchased and used with the existing OSMO systems at Nance.
If You Give a Child a Book, authored by Shelby Ray, $1,500. First grade students will visit the SWOSU Career Fair and meet author and illustrator, Hannah Harrison. Each student will receive an autographed book by Harrison.
SOUTHWEST
Let’s Get our Glow On!, authored by Aide Flores, Ashley McPhail, Gabrielle Paul, and Aubrey Stanley, $239.96. These second grade classrooms will take an fun approach to academic standards reviews with room transformations that include black lighting.
WASHINGTON
STEM Night, $292.00, authored by Diane Keeton with the 5th and 6th grade science and math teachers. During the annual evening event in April, students and their families will have the opportunity to participate in many hands on technology and engineering projects and experiments.
Ceramics Unit Study, $400, authored by Lori Roach. 5th and 6th graders will each create a ceramic piece on art class.
Home Library, $1,500, principal site grant authored by Gene Ray. CPSF will provide funds to allow all Washington students to all take home books of their own at the end of the school year to grow their home library. Additional funds will be sought from community partners.
CHS
Audio Storytelling and Podcasting, $1,250, authored by Michelle Granger. Senior English students will learn to produce and broadcast their own podcasts.
ACT Escape Room, authored by Debbie Carlisle with all 9th-11th English teachers, $526.35. Escape rooms will be created in preparation of the April ACT test. Student must lean ACT test strategies and answer questions to “escape.”
Factory Obscura Field Trip, authored by Brittany Miller, $400.00. Honors English III, AP Composition, and AP Art students will visit the Factory Obscura art museum in Oklahoma City after various studies with related subject matter.
Fall 2019 Grant Awards
Total Awarded: $15,453.79
NANCE ELEMENTARY
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Together We Paint - $420.17, authored by April Willoughby and Kayla Yandell. Acrylic paints and canvases will be provided to all kindergarten students. With the assistance of the high school art department, students will explore this new medium.
Calming Corner - $89.59, authored by Tasha Jefferson. Students will learning calming and communication techniques to handle emotions. NAFME National Conference - $2,280, authored by Jennifer Daubenspeck, April Abraham, and Hunter Braly. CPSF will assist in expenses for all three Clinton elementary music teachers to attend the National Association for Music Educators National Conference in Orlando, Florida. |
SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY |
Hispanic Heritage Month Biographies - $212.46, authored by April Aston. This grant will provide a class set of different biographies for fourth grade students to select and then create presentations.
Musical Classroom Supplies - $1,5740.40, authored by April Abraham. Recorder instruments, and music notation supplies will be purchased for the Southwest music room. |
WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY |
Uke Box Hero! - $1,992.23, authored by Hunter Braly. Ukuleles will be purchased for the Washington music room.
Family Math Night - $293.00, authored by Washington math teachers. The grant will fund supplies and prizes for the 5th annual Washington Math Night on March 5, 2020. Literacy Fair - $936.50, authored by Toni Stowe and the ELA department. This 6th annual event will take place in conjunction with Math Night on March 5, 2020. Students will each do an expanded book report and display board illustrating elements of their selected book. |
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL |
Class Novels - $780, authored by Brittany Miller. Three different class sets of novels will be purchased for AP Language students.
Jumbotron Designer Team Meals and Travel - $500, authored by Hoi Geswinder. This grant will assist with covering meals and travel costs for students in Geswinder’s class who are learning programming and design for Clinton’s new Jumbotron. These 15 student will have lessons with professionals from the OKC Thunder and Oklahoma State University. Mock Trial Conference - $4,000, authored by Ashley Kelley. Clinton will host the Oklahoma Mock Trial Fall Conference. The CHS mock trial team will be able to compete locally as well as hosting teams from across the state at the Frisco Center. Career Pathways - $400, authored by Debbie Carlisle. Junior Achievement materials will be purchased to assist students prepare for college or career readiness as they identify strengths and interests. GOLD Academy Excellence Plan - $740, authored by Ron Smith. Students in alternative school will earn the opportunity to win prizes for positive actions such as good attendance and progress on assignments. |
2019 SPRING GRANT AWARDS
TOTAL AWARDED $13,945.54
NANCE |
If You Give a Child a Book, authored by Shelby Ray, $1,910
First grade students will do an in-depth study of the works of Oklahoma author Tammi Sauer. The will also get to see Sauer speak at SWOSU in April. Get Your Teach on Conference, authored by Jessica Cox and Natasha Jefferson, $950 These first grade teachers will attend a professional development conference in Texas this summer. We Can Build It, authored by Natasha Jefferson, $96.62 Manipulatives for students will be purchased for this 1st grade classroom to use with math and STEM activities. |
SOUTHWEST |
Get Your Teach on Conference, authored by April Aston, Blaire Wall, Aide Flores & Gabrielle Paul, $1,900
These 2nd and 4th grade teachers will attend a professional development conference in Texas this summer. Sequoyah Author Skype, authored by Christy Stephens, $347.42 Third and fourth grade students will have Skype sessions with Sequoyah Award nominated author, Kristin O’Donnell Tubb. They will learn about writing techniques from these professional Skype lessons and then apply those skills in their won creative writing projects. Data Driven, $71.50, authored by Kenzie Gifford and Allison Watson, $71.50 Two second grade classrooms will be equipped with reusable data tracking folders. These folders will help students take more responsibility on working to reach mastery goals. |
WASHINGTON |
Home Library, authored by Gene Ray, $4,000
Fifth and sixth grade students will be given to pick out two books each to take home and keep over the summer. The program is meant to encourage at-home reading and enable students to build their own library. |
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL |
A Night of Sweet Drama, authored by Melissa McSpadden, $750
In an effort to expand the high school drama department, a dessert theatre will be held during CHS Night of the Arts in April. Professional Development, authored by Krista Steiner and Alexia Frans, $740 These teachers will attend the national Spanish Teacher’s Convention this summer. Acetate Self Portrait, authored by Brandi Wilson, $2,300 2-Diminsional Art students will complete self portraits that include clear acetate and other sculpting materials. iFly STEAM Field Trip, authored by Brittany Miller, $880 Honors English III students will take a field trip to iFly in Oklahoma City. The students will also study a book prior to the trip related to flying and fantasy. |
